retire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 退休， 引退； 退却， 撤退； 就寝，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll retire to Bedlam.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My Lord (per-haps with George Washington on his mind) showed some surprise that they were not agreed, but signified his pleasure that they should retire under watch and ward, and retired himself.
-- Whereupon, Monsieur Gabelle did heavily bar his door, and retire to hold counsel with himself.
-- 'I must say again, nonsense, nonsense!When I have exe-cuted this little commission, I shall, perhaps, accept Tellson's proposal to retire and live at my ease.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I say that I ought to be prepared to do it, that is, I ought to have the money and to retire from the army."
-- The question whether to retire from the service or not brought him to the other and perhaps the chief though hidden interest of his life, of which none knew but he.
-- Yes," he said, smiling to him as tenderly as a woman, "give me carte blanche, retire from the regiment, and I'll draw you upwards imperceptibly."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very sorry for her; but there were moments 43when it would have been more agreeable, I thought, if Mrs.Gummidge had had a convenient apartment of her own to retire to,and had stopped there until her spirits revived.
-- 'Now, Mr. Heep,you can retire to think; particularly observing, if you please, that Ideclare to you, on the part of all present, that there is only onething to be done; that it is what I have explained; and that it mustbe done without delay.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the fortitude of a devoted no-vitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My intention is ultimately to retire from the management altogether, and until you can take all the expenditure upon your shoulders, I'll be a sleeping partner in the stock.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country.'
-- I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if 266 Frankensteinthey strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the last forkful of pork and chicken and mutton had been eaten, Scarlett hoped the time had come whenIndia would rise and suggest that the ladies retire to the house.
-- And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning.
-- And then she'd tell him sweetly she could only be a sister to him and retire with the full honors ofwar.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table.
-- The others were all obliged to retire to a distance, and when the peasant looked at the priest, he recognized the man who had been with the mill-er's wife.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power, by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient, called an act of indemnity' (whereof I described the nature to him), 'they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
-- He said, 'a fancy would some-times take a Yahoo to retire into a corner, to lie down, and howl, and groan, and spurn away all that came near him, although he were young and fat, wanted neither food nor water, nor did the servant imagine what could possibly ail him.
-- The word is strongly expressive in their language, but not easily rendered into English; it signifies, 'to retire to his first mother.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will retire to my own apartment.'
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